Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Disneyland!

Last Thursday my family came out from Arizona and we spent the day with them at Disneyland. We had a blast! The kids loved it! Connley has already started asking when grandma is coming back to go to Disneyland. This last time he only asked me like five times a day! No joke. It begins again! Ahhhh! I'm glad he likes it so much. What a spoiled little boy! Speaking of spoiled, Aunt Jessie bought Connley his Mickey ears the last time we were at Disneyland so grandma bought Dalton a pair this time. These boys look so adorable and they love their Mickey ears!






Okay, so they had the most beautiful flowers at Disneyland. These are my favorite!



We woke up early so we could be there right as the gates opened. Dalton didn't last long. This is his morning nap...




This is everyone's reaction when we were watching the Star Wars Training Academy...



Jessie is really amazed! (Not posed at all:)


Hey, I caught a picture of my dad smiling! (For those of you that don't know him, it's not that he doesn't smile, it's just really hard to get a good smile from him when taking his picture. So pretty much I caught him off gaurd.)


I thought Jessie did a splendid job of taking this picture. Totally have to give her credit for it!


So this cute little Mickey Mouse outfit Dalton is wearing is a gift from grandma RaDean given to him when he was born. The funny thing is that it is a 3-6 month outfit. He is my peanut baby! Thanks grandma RaDean!


After lunch we were all ready for a nap. Connley fell asleep in the little umbrella stroller. He was hanging half way out but still managed to get a good nap in.

Jessie had the same problem.



Dalton on the other hand just woke up from his nap and was ready to go!



Toy Story Mania!








My super hero brother...


He's really tough!

Thanks for all the fun Disneyland memories everyone!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

A Tribute to Michael Jackson



This week my family came out from Arizona and we all went to Disneyland. While standing in line waiting for our turn to enter the elevator on the Tower of Terror ride we were deciding on what poses we would strike for the camera. My sister, Jessie, came up with the great idea that we should do a "Thriller" pose. Ha! I thought that was hilarious! So the six of us in our party decided we were going to do a "Thriller" pose. The guy standing next to us heard us talking and said he'd join in. So then we were joking about how funny it would be to get everyone on the ride to strike the "Thriller" pose. The guy and I decided we would make an announcement once we were on the ride. So, once we were all seated and right before they closed the elevator door I yell, "Okay everyone, we have an announcement!" Everyone gives me this look like what the heck?! So the guy tells everyone that we are going to strike the "Thriller" pose to the left. It was the first time on the ride for some of them so they didn't know exactly when the picture was, but I attempted yelling through the music "Thriller to the left!!!" I thought we had a pretty good result. Seriously, how fun is Disneyland?! Plotting and goofing off with perfect strangers?!

...More Dinsneyland pictures coming soon!!!

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Lake Powell 2009!


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i have a massive amount of pictures from the week, only like 1,000 or so?! it was hard narrowing them down, but here's a brief overview of our week...(a few of the pics are courtesy of my sister-in-law rachel. thx rach!)
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...first we had to load all our stuff onto the houseboat...
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check out my killer air!
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okay, my brother gets ridiculous air!
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and check out this back flip!!!
(oh, and i have to mention how much
i LOVE my camera for taking such awesome pics!)
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check out this 13 year old boy's air!
(this is my cousin's son Jake.)
these boys make my air look lame! that's why i put mine first!!
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...the boys attempted a ski pyramid...
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and this is as far as they got.
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maybe next time...
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...and my brother put on a show...
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you can check out his video on youtube.
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the key is to never let go.
i almost lost my shorts on this one!
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i'm still gripping with one hand!
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and now i'm hanging off the back end...
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...yes, there were injuries...
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i just kicked him in the face! accident...i promise.
sorry tom!!
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my sister-in-law rachel hurt her
foot wakeboarding the second day! poor girl!
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look, i'm in a picture!
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lake powell was awesome! we had a blast! i LOVE my family!! i could have easily spent another week out there. i'm already counting down the days until next year!
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thanks for such a great time everyone!!






Connley's High Tech Space Shuttle

Connley and I built a space shuttle for him the other day. He kept sitting inside this box that I was meaning to throw away and decided that he was having so much fun with it that we should color it and make it something cool. So it is his NASA space shuttle, called Space Shuttle Connley. Once completed I had him sit in it and I pushed him around the apartment until I just about fell over dead (like after one minute!). So, that was our fun little project!




Connley's Halloween Costume

Connley's Halloween Costume


connley photo shoot

connley photo shoot





a tired little boy...

a tired little boy...

what a good sport!